Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

So what is the last month in which we didn't have a TD or a named storm of some kind in the Atlantic Basin somewhere...?

Also, a weak layer of above normal temperatures is now present at the surface along the South American Coast, a feature typical of a mature La Nina.

hmm, i did not remember seeing that before.. very interesting. it did look like the layer was shallow although the depth/temperature reading was a week old so it was hard to say. Obviously we have only been watching la nina in depth for a few decades at most, so we don't really know how things like this work.

I hope the US stays a superpower for a while, since i have a lot of friends here, and since poverty is bad for my mountains. However, i feel like we have reached our peak and won't be nearly as much a force in the future. Only time will tell.. i do believe that from a purely economic standpoint, even if global warming is no facter, getting out of our reliance on oil and the middle east will help us a lot. Also, keeping the edge technologically which typically has been achieved largely by government funded research :)

Please,can we stop arguing and get back to weather/climate?

Good morning,everyone - One topic I'm going to look into more is to try to get an honest,unbiased idea of how much warming we've had,at least in North America. The Western Regional Climate Center is an excellent data source, and so is Environment Canada. I've already printed up a lot of data and am trying to put together a sample of airport stations with reliable data (i.e. instruments located well away from urban development/heat island influences, same observation time over the years,etc.), then average them up by region. I'd like to do comparisons such as the 1950s or 1960s vs. the last 10 years. Also, to compare even the '80s with the 1995-2004 data. I may start with Arctic stations,since that is where the most concern is, and there aren't problems with land use and urban heat islands except for a few locations such as Fairbanks,AK.

What's important to me is to be objective about the whole global warming issue. One thing that interests me is a statistic I saw somewhere on here that it took until 1975 to increase CO2 in the atmosphere from the pre-industrial level of 280 ppm to 330 ppm, and now in the last 30 years we've gone from 330 ppm to 380 ppm. In other words, we've added as much CO2 in the last 30 years as we did in the previous 150 years or so. This does seem to correlate well with an increase the rate of warming in recent decades. Also,we can't ignore the increased rate of glacier melting. True,glaciers have generally been receding since the Little Ice Age ended in the mid to late 1800s, but the pace has picked up in the last few decades.

This is just my opinion. Maybe Dr.Masters' scenario #2 will occur (we can hope). My guess is we will be looking at the 2 degree C increase. On the other hand, I have a real problem with doomsday scenarios of increases of 10C and 220 foot rises in sea level. I'm off to work, but look forward to everyone's comments.

Great idea from the dutch, don't know where you'll park the SUV though?

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Is there a link to how a person can decrease the amount of CO2 they produce?
thanks
tim

To whoever asked - the fantasy forecasting works like this:

Every few hours to a day, I'll post a new 'advisory'. You make your forecasts or ask questions about the enviornment as needed, and the person who does the best forecasting for each storm is added to a winners list. Take a look at my site if you're interested, I think it's the fifth forum down.

Hurricanechaser:

Try being New Testament: Turn the other cheek! This pathological need to keep defending yourself is so tired.

bobburg,

At the moment the last of that argument is between Stormchaser and Hurricanechaser and hopefully it will get settled and all conversations will come back to the weather.

So, this may sound funny coming from me, but your comment was not helpful and ultimately Hurricanechaser has every right to respond directly to it. And being that your brought up the New Testament you have just opened it up again.

My hope is that Dr. Masters will post a new entry so that the topic is reset because I always try to live by the rule that you don't carry over from one thread to the next.

Hurricanechaser,

You may not think much of me, or my oppinion which is understandable, but I think you handled bobburg's comment very gracefully and directly and certainly I don't think his comment was called for as it served no purpose I could see other then to inflame the discussion again.

Inyo,

Tell that to Microsoft, Intel, AMD, IBM, AT&T, Bell Labs, and all the other leading technology companies in the United States. The US is where people want to be. It's true the government does fund a lot of universit research, but more of that is in the earth sciences and biological sciences, than in the technology area. Not that there isn't a lot of funding in technology as well, but most technology innovations are coming from private industry, not from government funded research.

Yes during Hurricane season it worked. If you all dont find the topic relevant, hit the spam button and it will be taken care of my the Admin. Believe me this works! Thanks again Wunder!

Hey Jeff, Bob, and David,

Three of my favorite people on here.:)

How are you all doing?

Your friend,
Tony

The NHC has released its report on Hurricane Vince. (www.nhc.noaa.gov/2005atlan.shtml?)

hurricanechaser i am doing vary good today

Chaser, you need to stop now. All further posts on the subject will be spamflagged by me, at least.

a cold front is draped from a 1004 mb low with gale
force winds and enters the area along 32n62w 30n71w then becomes
a warm front


dcw get lost

Well, not being very nice to me today, KRWZ. As before, dcw=me.

By the way, I thought this was a great spin on the whole global warming issue - conclusive proof that global warming comes from lower pirate populations:

ForecasterColby ooops i am so sorry i did not no that was you so i am so sorry i take that back sorry

I'm going to do my bit and get a parrot and an eye patch Colby.

"The rain in Spain was mainly less than 2 inches"

Hee, hee, hee

Who says the NHC has no sense of humor?

ForecasterColby,

Your chart is wrong you forgot some pirates:

* Software pirates
* Music pirates
* Movie pirates

* Big Fat Cat corps that loot your wallet to finance thier "sweat shops" in other lands

* Legal Monoploies like phone, cable, trash that jack you for more money for anything they feel like cause they know thier is no one else for you to switch too

And the biggest pirate of all

****THE GOVERMENT***

(ROFLMAO)

ForecasterColby ooops i am so sorry i did not no that was you so i am so sorry i take that back sorry


you there if you see this or get my e mail yet me no

F5 ~ I have to disagree with you that the govt doesn't give us alot of new technology. I have & do know alot of people that work at Kennedy Space Center, some for NASA. The things they create every day helping privite industry or just to do all this space stuff is amazing & all the technoligy is just handed to the companies to market. I could write the longest blog ever of everyday things that are in my house where the technoligy origanally came from NASA. Even the brand name EQyss horse shampoo here, developed to decontaminate astronauts.

I found an article on the study of the ice worms, the enzymes are wild ~

There's been increased interest in ice worms and other animals whose glacial habitat could disappear within the next 50 years due to global warming.

Organs harvested for transplant deteriorate as the cells' energy stores are depleted, he said. Examining the ice worms' metabolism may lead to drugs or chemical solutions that could keep organs alive longer.

There were alot of other new technologys mentioned that could come out of this study funded by NASA...

The US is where people want to be. It's true the government does fund a lot of universit research, but more of that is in the earth sciences and biological sciences, than in the technology area.

well, admittedly i am a biologist so this is where i draw most of my data. There aren't many companies doing research on ecology because it's hard to make a profit on it in the short term. however, as you know, it is very important in the long term (ask the people of new orleans)

Hey everyone,

It is obvious that you(dcw), Stormchaser(who I wrote a most heartfelt response to him which should've settled everything), and snowboy, and others who didn't see it are left with the incorrect impression because my most sincere and respectful and most importantly agreeable response to Bobburg was intentionally deleted so no one can see the truth.

Does anyone care about the truth?

Since you obviously never got the chance to see it, heres the comments from a blogger summarizes their opinion of my response.:)

(I intentionally will not disclose the indentity but its stil in the previous blog if you doubt its validity)


Hurricanechaser,

You may not think much of me, or my oppinion which is understandable, but I think you handled bobburg's comment very gracefully and directly and certainly I don't think his comment was called for as it served no purpose I could see other then to inflame the discussion again.

To Everyone on here, who will never know the truth because it was deleted as will this one be.

Worst of all noone will ever know I was not ever going to continue these responses ever again in this blog but this unfairness and coverup of the TRUTH deserves to be acknowledge.

Did you not notice how I honestly and sincerely acted like the Christian I should've been all along and made a committment to keep my Faith out of the blogs and was very respectful to Bobburgs comment even agreeing with him about turning the other cheek.

Heres the response I got....And notice how that most heartfelt post has been deleted and leaves me looking horrible in the blog history of the previous blg.

I can't tell you how unfair and disappointed I am about that.

I was hoping you could understand this.:)

From Bobburg on my mail.

"You're a Christian; you brought the world crusades, the inquisition, and Northern Ireland. And all the crap in between. You love fighting with everyone. You're also obviously fighting with yourself and your genetic predisposition towards homosexuality. But hey, no worries: As Mark Twain wrote, "All heaven redjoiced, happy you were going there. And so was hell.""


Thankfully, God knows the truth even if some of you don't care for it to be known and had it removed because you desire me to continue made to look bad.


Thanks,
Tony

WOW! All my most heartfelt and genuine comments especially the one sharing the Gospel of Jesus respectfully and talking about how I am no better than anyone else has also been deleted intentionally!